Audiobook12 hours
Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Written by Christopher James Blythe
Narrated by Christopher Grove
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
About this audiobook
The relationship between early Mormons and the US was marked by anxiety and hostility. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe. Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the US Constitution and end their oppression.
In Terrible Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the church's mainstream culture in modified forms but continued to maintain separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.
In Terrible Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the church's mainstream culture in modified forms but continued to maintain separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.
Related to Terrible Revolution
Related audiobooks
The Utah War: The History of the Federal Government’s Controversial Conflict with Brigham Young and the Latter-Day Saints Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heathen: Religion and Race in American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfrican Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfrican Americans in the Revolutionary War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644 – 1865 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMagisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The History and Legacy of America’s Most Unusual Riots in the Early 19th Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boston Massacre: A Family History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Whig Party: The History and Legacy of the Influential Political Party in 19th Century America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Marc Morris's The Anglo-Saxons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Joke: One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
United States History For You
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter from Birmingham Jail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Terrible Revolution
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
1 rating0 reviews